Improvement in sawing-machines



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JONATHAN CREAGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAWING-MACHINES.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN CREAGER,

Lof Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Circular Sawing Machines 5 and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My present improvementrelates to the class ot' machines which contain a vertical circular saw employed to work up slabs and blocks into small boards suitable for packing-boxes,-

machines, dated the 12th day of October, 1858.

rIhat portion'of the feeding-table G toward which the saw cuts is provided with a shoul` der, H, which is made adjustable toward the plane of the saw, to enable it to be set forward as it becomes worn by the fraying action of the saw.

I is one of a pair of rests which are united at bottom to the back of the feeding-table G, between which and themselves a gap or interval, K, is left, sufcicnt for the passage ofthe saw-blade.

The oftce of the rests I is to support that portion of the stuft'which is in rear of the saw.

The necessity of the rests I becomes apparent when itis understood that much ofthe material worked up consists of slabs, such as indicated by red lines in Fig. 3, and at X. The iiat77 of such slabs being always presented toward the saw, their chief and often only support is from the rests I.

In the machine described in my aforesaid patent, the discharge of the work was effected by means of elastic lingers, which, although fultillin g in degree the purpose for which they were devised, were found in practice to possess some serious defects, for whenever they happened to be somewhat too yielding for the weightof the piece they would bend down so as to become entangled in the teeth of the saw 5 and, on the other hand, when the iingers were too stift', they acted to oppose the ascent of the stuit', and to press it away from the gage, so as to cause an irregular and uneven cut.

In order to remedy the above defects, I have substituted for my elastic fingers a device named by me the gravitating discharger,77 and constructed as follows M is a iap or apron, of wood or metal, hinged, m, by its lower edge to the chute D, and upheld in the represented inclined position very near the rear side of the saw, but so as not to touch the same, by means of the elevated bearing-piece or support L. On the ascent of the feeding-table the iiap M m easily gives way to the pressure of the ascending stuff, and, dropping below the part of the stuft' which is in rear of the saw, Without touching the latter, ai'ords an immovable resting-place for the separated piece, which it conducts safely onto the chute.

I claim herein as new and of my inventionl. The rests I, attached at their lower ends to the back of the feeding-table G, and passing up in rear ct' the saw, the same bein g constructed and operating as set forth.

2. The provision, in rear of a circular saw, of the inclined gravitating apron or iiap M, whose lower edge is connected by means of a hinge, m, to the chute D, and whose upper edge is supported in near proximity to without touching the saw blade, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

JONATHAN CREAGER.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, I. N. STORY. 

